Make Your Own Vietnam cement planters

Vietnam cement planters made from hypertufa are wonderful for displaying rock-garden plants or succulents. Over time, the hypertufa ages gracefully, collecting a patina of mosses and lichens. In this article you will find the recipe and instructions for making hypertufa.

The process I use to mold containers is much simpler that the usual box-in-box method that sandwiches hypertufa and some metal mesh in a frame. Instead, I simply pack hypertufa around an overturned plastic pot or planter. And because it’s so easy to work with, vietnam cement planters can be molded into many sizes and shapes.

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Step 1

Measure and mix the peat moss, perlite, cement, and a small handful of reinforcing fibers in your tub. You’ll kick up plenty of dust at this stage, so be sure to wear your dust mask.

Add the water while stirring with your trowel. Test the consistency frequently, as it’s much easier to add water than it is to readjust the dry ingredients. When a squeezed handful retains its shape and doesn’t release more than a few drops of water, the mix is ready.

Step 2

Mold the mixture around the chosen object, which has been placed upside down on the plastic drop cloth. Avoid objects with a pronounced lip since it would make the object difficult to remove from the finished container.

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Pack the mixture up around the sides of the object, tamping it down firmly to bond the hyper­tufa to itself and to avoid a crumbly texture. A 1- to 2-inch layer on all sides will create strong walls.

Flatten the intended bottom of the completely covered object for stability, and shape the sides to a desired form. Then poke your finger through the bottom to create a drainage hole.

Step 3

Wrap the vietnam cement planters in the plastic sheeting, and place it in a shady spot for about a day to let it harden.

Step 4

Remove the wrapping after the hyper­tufa has had a day to harden. The mixture will be firm but still soft enough to work with. Turn the container over, and remove the mold.

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Brush the sharp edges and the smooth top, if desired, to give a rougher, more natural look to the vietnam cement planters.

Step 5

Rewrap your container, and place it in a shady place for another two days. Then unwrap it, and soak it with a hose periodically over the period of a few weeks to leach out the residual lime from the cement, which would harm plants.

Create an Alpine Trough with tall concrete pot

Select a right container

You’ll need to get a tall concrete pot for plants, making sure that it has a hole in the bottom for drainage. Tall concrete pot for plants is a mix of cement, peat moss, and perlite (some recipes add sand). You can find hypertufa troughs in many sizes: ranging from a small, 13-inch-diameter pot to a 3-foot-diameter bowl, as well as varying dimensions of rectangular, square, or even oval shapes. The beauty of concrete pot is the light weight of the finished trough, which makes it easy to move around, provided its size doesn’t make it unwieldy. Many garden centers carry an array of hypertufa pots. But remember: If you use a concrete pot the size of a bathtub, you’re still going to need a forklift or a few strong friends to move it.

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Mix the soil

The soil for your alpine trough should be one-third organic and two-thirds inorganic. If the soil contains too much organic matter, it will be too rich for the plants, causing them to rot. Remember that alpine plants have adapted themselves to survive with minimal amounts of nutrients and prefer a well-draining scree (loose mountain stone) mix, replicating the soil conditions of an alpine environment. The best material to use is a mixture that contains one-third standard potting mix, one-third sand (bagged play sand works well), and one-third crushed shale or gravel. Fill the container two-thirds full with your mix.

Choose the plants

Because troughs are basically miniperennial gardens, many of the design principles are the same as when you are designing a garden that isn’t in a pot.

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Place the plants

When removing each plant from its pot, I rip off half of the root-ball and slightly tease the remaining roots loose. This temporarily slows the plant’s growth. Because most troughs are fairly shallow, you can nestle each plant in at the proper soil level, with room below for the new roots to grow. The mistake most people make is that they cram too many plants into a trough (which is understandable because the plants are so damned cute). You want to place plants so that they are at least a couple of inches apart. You can also incorporate a decorative rock or two, which can fill a space that is temporarily empty.

Top dress the tough

Once you have finished planting the trough, you’ll want to mulch it with a thin layer of gravel. Small pea stone or crushed brick works well and sets off the plants visually in the trough. The gravel helps hold in moisture and heat, making the trough virtually self-sufficient. It is crucial not to use any type of organic mulch; the material is too rich and can promote rot at the plants’ crown. Once you’ve finished placing the mulch, you can lightly water in the plants. Because alpines don’t require a lot of moisture, periodic rainfall is usually the only subsequent water your trough will need. In fact, overwatering is the most common cause of a plant’s demise. Remember—carefree is the key here.

How to Plant Tulips in large cement garden Pots

Hybrid tulips can be unspeakably beautiful, but they also come with a daunting array of caveats. For starters, most don’t reliably return for more than two or three years—and ideal conditions are necessary for even that much longevity. Then there are the issues of disguising their dying foliage and filling the bare spots they leave behind—assuming, of course, that voles, squirrels, and other garden predators don’t snatch the bulbs well before they bloom.

Growing tulips in large cement garden pots, however, lets you skip most of these frustrations. In pots, tulips are eye-catching, portable, and protected. All gardeners—regardless of whether or not they’ve had success growing tulips inground—should give this simple technique a try.

The best time to pot up tulips is in early fall, the same as if you were planting them in the ground. Have ready several containers with outside diameters of at least 18 inches and outside heights of at least 15 inches. Using anything smaller reduces the impact of the planting and the viability of the bulbs.

If you want a certain mix of colors to emerge at the same time, choose from the same class of tulips. Short groups, such as Single Early, Double Early, and Triumph, are obvious container choices as they mix well with spring annuals and will not tower over their pot. There’s no harm, however, in experimenting with taller or more exotic types, such as Parrot and Viridiflora. Tulips of every type and color can work—just be sure to group together varieties with similar bloom times. You’ll only have room for 18 to 22 bulbs per container, so successive blooming (six tulips blooming one week and another six blooming two weeks later, for example) won’t look nearly as stunning as a design that flowers all at once.

To make the containers less heavy and easier to move, place an upside-down plastic grower pot at the bottom of each cement garden pot. Fill the  cement garden pots two-thirds full with any inexpensive, lightweight potting mix. Don’t bother with fertilizer. Ignore traditional spacing guidelines, and place the tulip bulbs in a tight circular pattern. Cover the bulbs with potting mix, planting the bulbs at the same depth you would plant them in the ground: generally two to three times the bulb’s height.

Animals are less likely to disturb tulips planted in cement garden pots than those planted in the ground. But for added protection, place a wire grid, such as a round peony support, on top of the soil (photo, below), and cover it with a thin layer of potting mix.

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If you live in USDA Hardiness Zones 4 to 7, place the planted pots in an unheated garage. This protects them from undergoing a freeze-and-thaw cycle, which turns potted bulbs into mush. Water them when they’re in place; you won’t need to water again until spring. If you don’t have an unheated garage and live in a region with freezing temperatures, you’ll need another strategy for keeping the containers cold, dry, and insulated. The goal is to keep the planted bulbs just above freezing.

Check on your pots in early spring. Water them lightly. When the tulips start peeking above the surface, bring them out and place them on display. Water as you would any container plant; the tulips will bloom at the same time as those planted in the ground.

Once the blooms fade, you can gently transplant the bulbs into a sunny bed, but all the caveats regarding inground planting still apply. The best and bravest option is simply to compost the spent bulbs and start planning a different color scheme for the following year.

If you know which group a tulip belongs to, you can usually predict when it will flower. Designing a few containers that contain tulips with different bloom times is an easy way to prolong the tulip season for as long as possible. This is not a perfect science, however, so be prepared to welcome your tulips if they flower a little early or a little late.

How to Grow Tomatoes in outdoor cement pot

We planted our tomatoes and tended them carefully. They grew, sometimes to astounding size. But they always fell victim to the bacterial wilt endemic to our soil. The tomatoes of our dreams, meaty and juicy with a balance of sweet and acid, always eluded us.

We knew that growing tomatoes in the usual way would never produce anything but frustration. Thus we began to experiment with growing tomatoes in large concrete pots. The work came to involve not just soil but also tactics to fend off high humidity, broiling heat, frosts, and insects, insects, insects. Our efforts evolved into a system that works well in our small space.

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We began with large concrete pots and whiskey barrel halves. Both proved impractical. Cement pots large enough to retain water for more than an hour in late July were too heavy to move and big trouble to sanitize at the end of the season. The half-barrels were even more unwieldy. They provided a haven for wood roaches, which like tomatoes almost as much as we do, and they were also susceptible to termites.

When the barrels fell apart in the third year, we sighed with relief and purchased 20-in. plastic pots and saucers. They are colored and styled to look like old fashioned concrete pot. At the end of each year, we scrub them to remove most of the dirt, mold, and algae, and then drop them into our heavily chlorinated swimming pool for cleaning. Dollies my husband made allow us to move the potted tomato plants around the patio with ease.

Good drainage and healthy roots go together. At first, we tried to achieve the goal by layering pebbles in the bottom of each cement pot. However, at the end of the season we wanted to dump the exhausted potting mix into our raised-bed vegetable garden. Deliberately adding rocks to our garden beds seemed perverse.

So we moved the river rock into the saucer instead. But we also line the bottom of each concrete pot with a layer or two of plastic window screening, cut to fit. Our soil stays put and drains well.

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In heavy rains, we siphon the nutrient-saturated liquid from the saucers with a turkey baster demoted from the kitchen. We recycle the liquid, conserving nutrients and getting rid of the standing water mosquitoes love for breeding.

We fill each pot with 6 in. to 8 in. of potting soil and set a transplant at the bottom of the garden cement pot. As the tomatoes grow, we trim the leaves from the stem and add more of the enriched soil mix until the pot is filled. This practice helps build root mass along the stem as it is buried, which is similar to laying the stem in a trench.

This method also allows us to plant earlier. Since the plants stay below the pot rim for a couple weeks, we can cozy the plants in old mattress pads if there’s a cold snap or cover them with old shower curtains if there’s a deluge. Best of all, we can tie layers of nylon netting over each pot to keep early insect marauders at bay.

Wonderful Winter tall concrete pots

During the cold months of January and February, when the setting is bleak and the sky is gray, winter containers can cheer up the soul and provide a colorful punch to the landscape. Many gardeners give up on their potted creations in the fall, but that can be a horrible waste because winter is when color and interest are most vital.

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Creating a winter design is not difficult. The general rule for container-plant survival through the winter is to use plants hardy to at least two zones colder than your USDA Hardiness Zone; this, however, is not always a steadfast rule. Many trees, shrubs, and peren­nials that are hardy in your zone will live and even thrive in containers through all four seasons. In this case, a frostproof pot with a drainage hole is important. Cement pots are the best weather-resistant containers to use.

Assemble your designs early enough that the plants have time to acclimate to their new tall concrete pots before the hard freeze. Also, winter containers usually need to be checked only monthly for water to make sure they haven’t dried out; when the soil eventually becomes frozen solid, watering is no longer necessary. Apply an antidesiccant such as Wilt-Pruf to broad-leaved evergreens and to branches of cut greens to protect against drying winter winds. When it comes to design, I like to use a mix of live plants, cut branches, colorful berries, and interesting evergreen foliage to dress up the pots for maximum seasonal appeal.

 

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The vibrant colors of this tall concrete pot planting set it apart. Red­twig dog­wood’s scarlet stems are strikingly prominent and add a structural component to the container. To highlight them, it helps to have a solid evergreen background so that the thin branches stand out. Surrounding the base of the dogwood are two small Japanese pieris, whose glossy, dark green leaves provide bulk and texture to the design. The lemon yellow foliage of ‘Golden Sword’ yucca complements the dogwood. Two perennials, ‘Bressingham Ruby’ bergenia and ‘Caramel’ heuchera, are tucked around the bottom of the pot to add an additional punch of color. The ‘Ivory Tower’ Japanese hollies on each side of the dogwood add more color interest with their creamy yellow berries. Branches of gold-thread sawara echo the yellow tones from the holly berries. The result is a colorful explosion dy­namic enough to brighten the grayest of winter days.

Many people feel that winter containers are a waste of time because they can’t be appreciated when covered in snow or ice. Using strong architectural forms in your containers will allow them to stand out even when encased in snow. Hardy ‘Green Mountain’ boxwood has this kind of profile. Its clean, simple lines stand out against almost any backdrop, especially when dusted with snow. To highlight the dark foliage of the boxwood, I pair it with the slender leaves of silver-variegated Japanese sedge. The soft green and white mottled foliage of ‘Snow Angel’ heuchera gives mass to the arrangement, and ‘Angelina’ sedum is wedged in for its cascading tendency. The yellow pansies may not survive throughout the winter but are wonderful for a short time. The strong form of this design will make it a showstopper throughout winter.

 

Although the hues featured in this tall concrete pot are not necessarily traditional, they are still dramatic and seasonally appropriate. The strong vertical form of the evergreen beaked yucca makes it a perfect focal point for a design. The dark foliage of a ‘Plum Pudding’ heuchera provides contrasting color at the base of the combination, and steely blue cut stems of smooth cypress pick up the silvery hues of the shimmering hairs along the edges of the yucca. With their opposing shape and color, orange winterberry branches also accentuate the sculptural yucca leaves. These fruits usually form earlier than red winterberry, so the berries do not last as long on the branch, but the color is worth the effort. The thick vertical leaves of the yucca and unexpected hues of this design stand out in winter, despite the absence of traditional red and green.

Growing thyme in a cement pot

Plant thyme in your herb garden, at the edge of a walk, along a short garden wall, or in cement planter. As a special garden treat, put a few along a walkway and between steps, and your footsteps will release its aroma. It even makes a pretty patch of small ground cover. Growing thyme provides an anchor in an herb garden in areas where it is evergreen in winter. Thyme is also perfect for cement pot, either alone or in combination with plants that won’t shade it out. The flowers open in spring and summer, sprinkling the plant with tiny, two-lipped blossoms attractive to bees.

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Soil, Planting, And Care

Thyme does best in full sun. Start from young plants set out in spring after the last frost. Plant in well-drained soil with a pH of about 7.0; it prefers slightly alkaline conditions. Add lime to the pot or ground to raise the pH if needed. Also add a slow-release fertilizer to the soil at or before planting and again each spring. Thyme must have excellent drainage. Mulching with limestone gravel or builder’s sand improves drainage and prevents root rot. German thyme is perennial in zones 5 to 9, lemon thyme in zones 7 to 9. Easy to grow, thyme needs little care except for a regular light pruning after the first year. Do this after the last spring frost, so that the plants do not get woody and brittle. Pinching the tips of the stems keeps plants bushy, but stop clipping about a month before the first frost of fall to make sure that new growth is not too tender going into the cool weather. Cut thyme back by one third in spring, always cutting above points where you can see new growth, never below into the leafless woody stem. Lemon thyme is more upright and more vigorous than the other thymes. In the North and cold climates, cover with pine boughs after the soil freezes to help protect from winter damage. In zone 10, thyme is usually an annual, often succumbing to heat and humidity in mid-summer.

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Troubleshooting

Spider mites can be a problem in dry weather. Also watch out for root rot and fungus diseases in humid climates. Good drainage, good air circulation, and proper planting as described above will help prevent disease.

Harvest And Storage

Harvest leaves as you need them, including through the winter in places where it is evergreen. Although the flavor is most concentrated just before plants bloom, thyme is so aromatic that the leaves have good flavor all the time. Strip the tiny leaves from woody stems before using.

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How to make a lightweight concrete pots

Make a Vietnam lightweight concrete pots

Material

Vietnam lightweiaght concrete pot

Portland cement

Pearlite and peat moss

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I mixed the hypertufa in a large  container, following these directions. When mixing that particular batch, added one part sand, to equal parts cement, Pearlite and peat moss for added strength.

tips: when mixing that it required more water than the mixture without sand.

Transfer mixture to Plastic container

Place this container in plastic bag in 36 hours

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After 36 hours,emove the planter from container and dry outside in 1-2 weeks

We have a lightweight concrete pots here. Then fill them with dirt and whatever flowers your little heart desires. I mainly use flowers that will grow and eventually drape over the edge of the buckets (ivy, vinca vine, petunias, Calibrachoa etc).Now it’s look great!!!!

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3 samples Vietnam large lightweight concrete planters manufacturer for garden

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A really authentic looking cement pots made from high density foam. These lightweight garden pots are durable, frostproof and plants really like them. The foam acts as an insulator so keeps the roots cool in summer and warm in winter. Up to 90% lighter than traditional cement pots

Unlike terracotta pots or normal cement pots they do not absorb water so less watering required. Also, this makes them more robust against frost.

Every gardener has a list of projects that they’d like to do each year, don’t they? I know I do. In fact, my list of “things to do this summer” seems to stay quite similar every year, as I never get around to all of the items. One task that’s been on that list for a few summers is “make more hypertufa pots“. Hypertufa is a lightweight concrete that is easy to work with and great for lots of different garden projects.

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Quick Details

Type: Pots

Place of Origin: Vietnam

Brand Name: Hoang pottery

Model Number: HFH 664

Material: Cement

Stone Type:  large  lightweight concrete planters

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Quick Details

Type: Pots

Place of Origin: Vietnam

Brand Name: Hoang pottery

Model Number: HFH 664

Material: Cement

Stone Type:  large  lightweight concrete planters

Quick Details

Type: Pots

Place of Origin: Vietnam

Brand Name: Hoang pottery

Model Number: HFH 664

Material: Cement

Stone Type:  large  lightweight concrete planters

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Vietnam lightweight concrete planters boxes for garden

Vietnam  lightweight concrete planters boxes for garden

A really authentic looking cement pots made from high density foam. These lightweight garden pots are durable, frostproof and plants really like them. The foam acts as an insulator so keeps the roots cool in summer and warm in winter. Up to 90% lighter than traditional cement pots

They are also the best choice for exposed container garden locations, in an entrance way, driveway or curbside, when you want to discourage anyone from walking off with your prize landscape pots and plants.This planter will make your garden more beautiful and provides you with a justifiable sense of accomplishment.

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Type: Pots

Place of Origin: Vietnam

Brand Name: Hoang pottery

Model Number: JJg 7554

Material: cement

Stone Type: Vietnam  lightweight concrete planters boxes for garden

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Quick Details

Type: Pots

Place of Origin: Vietnam

Brand Name: Hoang pottery

Model Number: GH76

Material: cement

Stone Type: Vietnam  lightweight concrete planters boxes for garden

Vietnam lightweight concrete planters boxes

Quick Details

Type: Pots

Place of Origin: Vietnam

Brand Name: Hoang pottery

Model Number: KHG86

Material: cement

Stone Type: Vietnam  lightweight concrete planters boxes for garden

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Why do people choose the light cement, light concrete pots?

Why do people choose the light cement, light concrete pots supplier?

Vietnam lightweight concrete pots suppliers

Light concrete pots are excellent choices for your landscape and garden. It’s really easy to buy from some Vietnam Light Concrete Planters Suppliers!

Vietnam lightweight concrete pots suppliers

Some of the most durable planters for gardening are large concrete containers that insulate a plant against summer heat and winter freezing. These outdoor containers aren’t always practical for apartment balconies and rooftops. But by mixing cement with aggregates and organic materials in a mixture, you can create a container with all the durability of solid cement, at a fraction of the weight. Because the organics in the mixture decompose and leave only air behind, the cement resembles alpine tufa rock.

Attractive, durable, and affordable, light concrete pots can be found for sale from local, wayside shops that manufacture them, as well as in highly styled forms from the trendiest shops. The light concrete containers are good for plant growth. They can be expensive in large sizes, and they are certainly heavy, making them challenging to bring home or move in the garden. Because they are concrete, consider them permanent.

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Light cement pots are excellent for decoration and planting as well, especially, big outdoor projects. Light cement planters can be made in very large sizes, this is its advantage compared with other kinds of planters. Besides, the light concrete planter have an insulating effect, they cannot be frozen in winter and keep moisture in summer so that trees are always in good conditions.

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